Posts Tagged ‘Obama’

It is interesting that President Barack Obama, who during eight years in office has, historically, been slow to act on international challenges, has moved quickly to impose sanctions upon Russia for alleged interference with the 2016 election. He moves well before a detailed investigation into the issue can be concluded. Compare the timeline for the investigation

On March 15, 44 BC, Roman emperor Julius Ceasar, surrounded by a group of 60 senators, was repeatedly stabbed. Initially resisting his assassins, a crestfallen Ceasar saw among them a good friend, Brutus Albinus. Disbelieving, he uttered as his last words, “Et tu, Brute (you too, Brutus)?” More than two millennia later, the expression

One of Barack Obama’s first actions as president was ensuring the American public understood what terrorism does not involve. Obama’s Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, quickly sought to dumb down the public’s perception on terrorism. While most Americans recognized terrorism as involving the use of violence and intimidation to pursue

During a press conference last month with German leader Angela Merkel in Berlin, President Barack Obama provided us with a “Jesse Jackson moment.” For those who have forgotten, in 1998, as the Monica Lewinsky sex scandalreared its ugly head, Reverend Jesse Jackson offered President Bill Clinton his services as a spiritual advisor. It would turn out

We have heard President Barack Obama, on several occasions, endeavor to allay fears about world violence. His nuclear deal with Iran does not do this. It now is up to President-elect Donald Trump either to re-negotiate an agreement that will or to reject it. Obama’s false assurances the world is safer have sounded like

A bombshell awaits America — one that, for all intents and purposes, will permanently define the legacy of President Barack Obama and, if elected, Hillary Clinton. As the November 8 presidential election has now become a virtual toss-up due to the FBI’s recent announcement that it would re-open its investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email

For eight years, President Barack Obama has been reluctant to expose skeletons in the closet of the Iranian mullahs. Even his own party members are now fed up with this policy, as a number of them joined Republicans to pass legislation dragging out one of these skeletons. On September 21, 42 Democrats joined House Republicans,

It has taken eight years for President Barack Obama to be asked “the question.” Unsurprisingly, it did not originate from the media. It came from one suffering a great personal loss in the war on terror—her son—and she deserved an answer. Gold Star mother Tina Houchins asked Obama at a September 28 CNN presidential town

When television journalist Tom Brokaw was retiring from the news business in 2004, he was asked by a TIME magazine interviewer if there was a story he ever regretted not reporting. The newsman lamented, referring to Sept. 11, 2001, “I regret that we did not connect the dots earlier on terrorism.” In fairness to Brokaw,

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford has just gone where no JCS chairman has ever gone before! Unsurprisingly, it took a Marine general to stand up to President Barack Obama in the wake of yet another of his dubious national security decisions. The same mindless Obama/Kerry negotiating team that